6/17/2025
The Ai lab specializes in protein engineering and employs interdisciplinary approaches, including biophysics, bioanalytical chemistry, chemical biology, synthetic biology, and optical imaging. One of our main areas of focus is the…
6/17/2025
6/17/2025
My laboratory develops and applies computational statistics methods to functional genomic data with a focus on epigenetic data. Epigenetics is the study of heritable phenotypic traits not coded in the…
6/17/2025
The Berger lab uses synthetic biology and protein engineering approaches to develop models of biochemical/biological processes, and uses these models to design new tools and technologies. This work is highly…
6/17/2025
Drug Development Targeting Transcription Drivers in Cancer Dysregulation of gene expression is a hallmark of all cancers. It is critical for self-renewal and chemo-resistance of cancer cells which contributes to…
6/17/2025
Membranes and membrane proteins participate in some of the most important and interesting cellular processes. Energy transduction, cell signaling, membrane excitability, secretion and immune recognition are examples of a few…
6/17/2025
The longstanding interest of my laboratory is on the regulation of membrane trafficking in the secretory and endocytic pathways. A new direction that is a major focus of our research…
6/17/2025
My research focuses on the design and statistical analysis of human gene mapping data. Recently, my research has focused on the development of methods for analyzing genome-wide SNP data in…
6/17/2025
Membrane proteins facilitate the transfer of information across lipid bilayers, comprise approximately 25% of a typical proteome, and represent over half of all drug targets. The membrane proteins that mediate…
6/17/2025
Current funded projects in the laboratory: (1) Elucidation of molecular mechanisms controlling smooth muscle contractility; (2) Development of drugs against the influenza and Ebola viruses; (3) Studies of the mechanism of protein crystallization…
